Martin Dempsey Quotes

America is the world's engine but also its conscience. We are the petri dish of diversity and inclusiveness.

Martin Dempsey

Recitation: by Male by Female

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DiversityWorldAmericaConscience

I have stood on the front lines of the health care system as a doctor, patient and concerned parent. Those experiences have served as my guideposts throughout the struggle to reform America's health care system. And it's those same experiences that tell me that fear and election hysteria should not overshadow the reality of reform.

Jim McDermott

FearHealthStruggleMeDoctorCare

The idea of a spiritual heart transplant is a vivid image to me; once you have the heart of somebody else inside you, then that heart is there. Jesus' heart is inside me, and my heart is gone. So if God were to place a stethoscope against my chest, he would hear the heart of Jesus Christ beating.

Max Lucado

GodHeartSpiritualMeYouPlace

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

Steven Wright

YouEverythingWhereWouldPut

Though foreign loans are indispensable for the emancipation of the rising capitalist states, they are yet the surest ties by which the old capitalist states maintain their influence, exercise financial control, and exert pressure on the customs, foreign and commercial policy of the young capitalist states.

Rosa Luxemburg

InfluenceControlFinancialPressure

I think that talking about the personal specificity, personal details, is how you get the big, big audiences - by talking about your relationships or your personal tragedies. If you reach out with that energy, you'll touch people.

Mike Mills

PeopleEnergyThinkDetailsTalking

In calling someone a bad guy, I reassure myself that I'm good. I elevate myself. I call it the 'Star Wars morality'. And unfortunately, it underpins most of the stories we tell.

Joshua Oppenheimer

GoodMyselfSomeoneBadMorality

Often, parents feel overwhelmed. Many must accomplish the whole job single-handedly while bearing all of the emotional pain of divorce.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

JobPainParentsFeelAccomplish

Counter-insurgency warfare is not a simple thing... it's not as simple as, like, good guys versus bad guys. It is a mess.

Chelsea Manning

GoodSimpleBadMessGood GuysLike

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

TravelWorldSelfCountryNobody

The advice I give young people is that you have to pursue something, and you have to have fun along the way.

Peggy Whitson

FunPeopleHave FunAdviceYouWay

There's never going to be a system that is fair to everyone.

Shannon Miller

NeverFairEveryoneSystemGoing

'Survivor' was, to me, an absolute reaction that the audience was having to the sort of staid nature of narrative drama on television.

Thomas Schlamme

NatureMeTelevisionDramaSurvivor

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